We actually think you should be paying for things like insulation, air sealing and better windows. However, the people we work with in the project we're working on would not be contemplating this work without the supports that are on offer. In many cases, some of these projects are in African Nova Scotian and equity-deserving communities. We've done 15 feasibility studies, and five of them are scheduled to move forward to actual implementation with an indigenous community, so they are moving forward, but these are groups that wouldn't move them forward otherwise.
As we're doing this, we're collecting invaluable information about the considerable barriers that are impeding people from doing retrofits. We're also bringing people into the retrofit workforce. We piloted and have now launched a program that is a job shadowing and introduction for African Nova Scotian youth to work on deep retrofits, both in construction and in engineering offices.
